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Which way is the best way to make ledge grabbing?

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Qariter 110

5 years ago

I need some confirmations here. Do i use raycasting or do i use some complex vector math? I want to figure out how to get the closest edge of a part from a player's magnitude.

All help is appreciated, thank you.

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Answered by

WBlair 35

4 years ago

You can use 2 raycasts, one where the humanoid rootpart is (pointing where the humanoid rootpart is looking) and another at the humanoid rootpart's position but 1.5 studs up (the "heads" position). The one on the humanoid rootpart detects if there's a part and the one on the "head" detects if there is no part. This is a very easy way to detect the top of a part.

1local rayDetectPart =Ray.new(char.HumanoidRootPart.Position,char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector*2) --2 studs in front of the player
2local hit,point,normal =workspace:FindPartOnRay(rayDetectPart, char)
3 
4local rayNoDetectPart =Ray.new(char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame+Vector3.new(0,1.5,0),char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector*2)
5local nohit,nopoint,nonormal =workspace:FindPartOnRay(rayNoDetectPart, char)
6 
7if hit and not nohit then
8initiategrab()
9end

Very lazily made but it takes very little load on a computer's CPU and gets the job done.

Thank you for explaining! Qariter 110 — 4y

Which way is the best way to make ledge grabbing?

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